Tourists

So the holiday period is over, the accident rate is the lowest for some years but it is still far too high. However it was revealed today that the police are targeting tourists to help improve their driving standards whilst driving in NZ……  doh!...

I must be missing something in the translation, whilst any initiative to keep me safe is welcome, given the numbers of tourists to NZ compared with the actual numbers of accidents; surely the emphasis needs to be on improving kiwis driving skills, just more bureaucracy and government intervention without tackling the real issues.

But then anything that deflects from those issues seems to be the way National prefers to run the country. Come on NZ you can do better than that. Stop scape-goating and face the real issues, that of drink driving, tackling this one key issue will no doubt decrease the number of road accidents and deaths on the road massively, but then it's to easy so not likely  to happen.

Just because the death toll was down this year does not mean that the drink driving problem as gone away, just that drivers did not get caught.